1.Peter Jackson’s Get Back ends with the Beatles’ last live performance, on the roof of their record company offices in … ? Carnaby Street Penny Lane Savile Row Reveal 2.How long did it take for Adele’s 30 to become 2021’s biggest selling album? 3 minutes 3 hours 3 days Reveal 3.Which novelist won’t allow their new hardback to be sold by Amazon US? Sally Rooney William Gibson Dave Eggers Reveal 4.How many Grammy nominations have recently reunited Abba had since 1972? 0 1 2 Reveal 5.Zadie Smith’s debut play The Wife of Willesden is a reworking of which work? Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife Reveal 6.By whom was Clean Bandit’s 2017 hit Symphony famously danced to this year? Britney Spears Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice Michael Gove Reveal 7.Which satirist this year wrote a book-­length poem in response to the pandemic? Ian Hislop Armando Iannucci John Oliver Reveal 8.Which Conservative party figure attended the No Time to Die premiere? Boris Johnson Carrie Johnson Owen Paterson Reveal 9.Which Sopranos character is not seen in prequel The Many Saints of Newark? Big Pussy Bonpensiero Tony Soprano John "Johny Sack" Sacrimoni Reveal 10.From which did Donald Trump resign after being threatened with expulsion? The Screen Actors Guild The Television Hall of Fame The Friends of American Opera Reveal 11.A “semi-­ drunken” talk to a friend about families and what inspired Damon Galgut’s Booker winner The Promise? Weddings Funerals Christmases Reveal 12.Who included, “So lock me up and throw away the key” in an anti-vax song? Van Morrison Eric Clapton Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend Reveal 13.When the late Stephen Sondheim was 10, he first met which giant of American musicals who became his lifelong mentor? Cole Porter Irving Berlin Oscar Hammerstein II Reveal 14.The new biography of which British novelist tells of a mislaid swastika brooch given by an SS officer boyfriend? Nancy Mitford Barbara Pym Muriel Spark Reveal 15.The retirement village in Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice is where? West Sussex Essex Kent Reveal 16.Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black composed a song in praise of which lockdown star? Jonathan Van-Tam Jackie Weaver Joe Wicks Reveal 17.Graffiti on Edvard Munch’s The Scream, reading “can only have been painted by a madman”, was identified this year as having been written by … ? A critic A vandal Edvard Munch himself Reveal 18.Monique Roffey crowdfunded what aspect of her Costa book of the year winner The Mermaid of Black Conch? Printing Publicity A research trip to the Caribbean Reveal 19.Which Labour figure and football fan’s autobiography is Always Red? Angela Rayner Len McCluskey John McDonnell Reveal 20.Who was filmed defacing a Banksy artwork this year? An artist An actor Banksy himself Reveal 21.Who in 2021 became the oldest male solo artist to top the UK charts? Tom Jones Paul McCartney Bob Dylan Reveal 22.What made Morrissey complain about there being no hate laws to protect him? Rick Astley performing Smiths songs A parody of him in The Simpsons His autobiography going out of print Reveal 23.The first part of Jonathan Franzen’s new American family life trilogy is … ? Coronations Crossroads Neighbours Reveal 24.Which 2021 Oscar winner accepted with a “very realistic howl of a wolf”? Anthony Hopkins Daniel Kaluuya Frances McDormand Reveal 25.Nobel literature prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah recently retired as a Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of … ? Paris Zanzibar Kent Reveal 26.Which prominent culture and media figure allegedly once told a journalist, “I will nail your balls to the floor ... using your own front teeth”? Succession’s Logan Roy Jordan Peterson Culture secretary Nadine Dorries Reveal 27.When Christie’s sold NFT Everydays by digital artist Beeple for $69.3m, it became the third most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. Who topped the list? Jeff Koons Jasper Johns Damien Hirst Reveal 28.2021 saw the 200th anniversary of the death of John Keats. Which Anthony Burgess novel chronicled his final days? Earthly Powers Abba Abba Nothing Like the Sun Reveal 29.A former contestant of which reality TV show had their book withdrawn after allegations of plagiarism? The Great British Bake Off The Great British Sewing Bee MasterChef Reveal 30.This year was the 100th anniversary of Roots author Alex Haley’s birth. Which post was created for him in the US Coast Guard following his wartime service? Chief journalist Chief genealogist Chief biographer Reveal 31.Classical composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s most recent work commemorates which football occasion? England losing the Euros on penalties Gazza crying in Italia 90 Arsenal’s First Division win in 1989 Reveal 32.Rebecca Solnit’s study of George Orwell focused on his enthusiasm for … ? Golf Gardening Gambling Reveal 33.Which piece of classical music ominously recurs in Netflix’s Squid Game? The Blue Danube waltz The Ride of the Valkyries Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Reveal 34.Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel about online life, No One is Talking About This, referred to the internet as … ? The portal The circle The infobahn Reveal 35.Which 2021 theatrical memoir recalled making back-to-back films with Stanley Kubrick, then the Spice Girls? Miriam Margolyes Alan Cumming Stanley Tucci Reveal 36.Minus their words, can you still spot some of this year’s cultural highlights? Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Promise, by Damon Galgut Reveal 37. A Calling for Charlie Barnes, by Joshua Ferris The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki Reveal 38. Succession The White Lotus Hacks Reveal 39. Bewilderment, by Richard Powers Oh William!, by Elizabeth Strout The Magician, by Colm Tóibín Reveal 40. Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney Second Place, by Rachel Cusk Reveal 41. Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk What Strange Paradise, by Omar El Akkad Reveal 42. Passing Promising Young Woman Spencer Reveal 43. The Coen brothers’ The Tragedy of Macbeth The Father tick, tick … BOOM! Reveal 44. Crawler, by Idles For The First Time, by Black Country, New Road Seventeen Going Under, by Sam Fender Reveal 45. Call Me If You Get Lost, by Tyler, the Creator We’re All Alone in This Together, by Dave Montero, by Lil Nas X Reveal 46. Dune Minari Titane